[nmglug] hard,soft,link,inode

[Casey Dentinger]

Just read up and on most systems (though not strictly posix) find has a -samefile option for finding all the hard links.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, at 4:06 PM, Casey Dentinger wrote:
> When you ls -l
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1
> 
> That number after the mode is the number of hard links.  Hard links are 
> all literally the file and share its attributes so I don't think one 
> would be considered the original.  As for sym links they are just files 
> on disk that afaik the target knows nothing about.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, at 3:56 PM, a wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > If I have a file or directory and would like to now if it is the 
> > original file or directory of a link can I confirm the fact by reading 
> > an inode some where or some how?
> > 
> >   Thanks, a
> > 
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